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Technical Question

All,

I've inferred from some of your posts that at least one or two of you listen to our broadcasts while watching the telecast on FSN. One of the local watering holes would like to use our audio with FSN video this season, and I told the owner I would research this, though with the delay I wasn't sure how to sync these broadcasts.

Help?

MJB

P.S.: I was in Ripple Bagle and Deli for lunch today. This is one of the menu boards on the wall there. Check out the sandwich halfway down...it may not be the same as getting the court named, but it's something, no?

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Re: Technical Question

I actually researched the time-delay issue as part of my grad school studies several years ago. It's tough. I'm not sure what you can do other than follow the internet stream of the radio broadcast (which has a slight delay, just like the satellite TV broadcast) and do some manual syncing between the TV DVR and the audio stream (by pausing and restarting).

Maybe Slick can yell "Boom!" at the moment of the tip-off or something so the stream can sync up? ;-)

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Re: Technical Question

Also Mark, I know you might not have much if any influence over this, but it would be great if NBA League Pass (which has both radio and TV broadcast feeds) provided an option for the internet broadcasts for users to pick a radio feed as their audio option as a substitute for the TV audio. This is really the ideal technical solution to this problem IMO, although I realize it's probably a licensing impossibility at the moment and would require the solution to happen on the NBA side of things.

Re: Technical Question

Mark,

One of the local radio stations in Bloomington that play the IU games have been advertising lately something called a Sports Sync Radio. You can pause the radio instead of the TV signal to match up. Apparently this station swears by it.

Re: Technical Question

Duke's solution wont work as it does the opposite of what you want to do and only has a 16 seconds gap, while the nba stream and radio are further apart.

It will work the way Wil said, I have tried it with the internet feeds, but you can't run both tv and audio streams on 1 pc, i will give it a try the awy game with 2 pc's but I assume for a wateringhole it will all become somewhat more difficult.

Problem lies mainly in the fact there is no "CUE" to set the sync to and the fact that the delay between radio and leaguepass stream can be as much as 5 minutes.

Also if using stream, loss of connection, buffering, etc all make the game go out of sync again.

(in short a lot of work for no result when you use a stream instead of cable or satelite)

I'll be honest, if the tv comments upset me to much, i switch to radio and go to bed to listen, but I am in the UK so that bed thing is never bad at the times we play

So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.

If you've done 6 impossible things today?
Then why not have Breakfast at Milliways!

Re: Technical Question

I've inferred from some of your posts that at least one or two of you listen to our broadcasts while watching the telecast on FSN. One of the local watering holes would like to use our audio with FSN video this season, and I told the owner I would research this, though with the delay I wasn't sure how to sync these broadcasts.

Help?

MJB

P.S.: I was in Ripple Bagle and Deli for lunch today. This is one of the menu boards on the wall there. Check out the sandwich halfway down...it may not be the same as getting the court named, but it's something, no?

Re: Technical Question

Readin back i have no clue where i inferred streams, but ata your solution works, as i said.
(though i would always be weary of the 16 sec max gap, your 1 wardrobe malfunction away from a sync-dysfunction)

So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.

If you've done 6 impossible things today?
Then why not have Breakfast at Milliways!

Re: Technical Question

Readin back i have no clue where i inferred streams, but ata your solution works, as i said.
(though i would always be weary of the 16 sec max gap, your 1 wardrobe malfunction away from a sync-dysfunction)

People started to bring up LP feeds over the net, but given that this is a BAR I assume they have DirecTV and then want to push the radio into a digital delay like the hardware/software Duke mentioned, or use a network radio stream and pause it instead. It's got a speaker like a small AM radio would, but the bar will want to connect the headphone jack back into their amplifiers L/R input (whichever they choose).

Pausing Dish doesn't fix the problem as the radio is already AHEAD of the dish feed, not behind. I assume Will has internet involved for radio which is where the delay comes in.

But if you flip on 1070 live in a bar you'll need to delay it.

Another option is Mark can just call the game with his own delay. So Mark, just wait 20 seconds to make every call and try not to forget what just happened all the time.

I mean isn't there already a delay between the action and when the light actually reaches you up in the rafters now? What you are seeing happen actually happened on the court a long time ago, like light from stars.

Re: Technical Question

I've inferred from some of your posts that at least one or two of you listen to our broadcasts while watching the telecast on FSN. One of the local watering holes would like to use our audio with FSN video this season, and I told the owner I would research this, though with the delay I wasn't sure how to sync these broadcasts.

Help?

MJB

P.S.: I was in Ripple Bagle and Deli for lunch today. This is one of the menu boards on the wall there. Check out the sandwich halfway down...it may not be the same as getting the court named, but it's something, no?